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I think that's part of the problem though. These courses really don't give me the confidence or the framework to develop projects around.

That said, I'm just doing a bunch of different courses until I get that AHA moment.
Nothing to see here move a long. It's probably just a dns issue.
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This might be indicative of where my head is at on this lovely day, but I was anticipating this to be some sort of webcam pointed skyward pareidolia project.
While I agree in principle, in practice it's kind of pointless. Inheritance taxes are incredibly easy to dodge.
Is the American education system really that bad? What are the obvious ways of improving the situation?
Yes, and under current law that is set to go down to $1,000,000 in less than three months. It is not a tax on the "one percent".
This is a really good format. One of the best language tutorials I've seen.
Very cool, thanks for the links! Are you affiliated with the project?
please stop using "iterating" in this way
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It had one, 4 months ago. No comments, only 4 points.

(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4014078)

I think I've seen it before that too, from HN.
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Are doing an MBA and building something mutually exclusive?
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Exactly. A patent this broad is anticompetitive, and will cripple the future of the DRM industry.

Clearly Myhrvold has made the world a worse place. The only thing I can think of that's worse was IBM's patenting the process of patent trolling.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/08/01/157743897/can-you-...
Planning a Date
Would you guys use an app that helped you plan out your entire date?
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Thanks for your feedback, rickdale! Congrats on launching your business under such uncertainty. We love hearing about experiences through B2B sites, especially Alibaba.com. Although you haven't had any horror stories, which we hear all too frequently, sounds like you've experienced a few curveballs. No more curveballs! Help us build a truly transparent purchasing environment.
Just because it only affects 1% of the population is of no support for this tax, imo it goes to show how our system is completely unfair(i know many will disagree with me on that point)

Maybe i'm living outside of reality but i don't understand why we can't have a single flat sales tax. The more you spend the more you pay. For some reason people think that just because you make more means you should pay a higher %, ofc you should pay more, but a higher % is the complete definition of unfair.
I think you're grossly misconstruing his point -- that you shouldn't let architectural ideology or a preconceived notion of what the best solution to your problem is get in the way of shipping good software.

No that's not his point. His point is that he doesn't want any fundamental ideas involved in guiding the architecture of an OS, period.
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This is an old media presentation of something inherently interactive -- Alan Kay complains about how the wikipedia pages' code examples aren't executable. There is already the well-developed http://tour.golang.org/, which can be used freely.
Implement login via Mozilla Persona. It's really easy to implement (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/persona) and e-mail based, so it should integrate into HN very easily.
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This post is maybe the worst thing I've read on HN. Getting an MBA drastically shifted the way that I analyze and attack business problems. The vast array of tools it provides for decision-making has been invaluable during the process of building my company.

I worked while doing my MBA, because I had a job that I loved and the lost salary didn't make sense. To the author's credit, I went to a more traditional school and the vast majority of my peers were not interested in pursuing a career as an entrepreneur - most went the traditional route of Finance or Marketing. But I was there to learn Entrepreneurship & Business and it was irrelevant what to me what my peers focus and drivers were. I've been out 6 years and have built a nice company since graduating, but still rely heavily on the things I worked so hard to learn while getting the MBA.

The network can be beneficial, but if you are depending upon it for success as an entrepreneur, then you will be sadly disappointed. In short, more education is always good - even if you can't see the immediate and direct correlation to your current efforts.
as a retailer, I incentivize customers to pay with it. the costs of promoting dwolla right now to increase the adoption rate among my customers is still lower than paypal or credit card fees.
I'm not a patent lawyer but does the fact that Neil Stephenson basically described the same thing in The Diamond age in anyway affect the validity of the patent?
Do you have any evidence to back this up?
My partner is married, and I know of several teams with spouses and children. Some have come with their entire families, some have not.

It's certainly possible, a bit of an adventure for sure, and I feel like a lot of people with families live outside of Santiago (even though there are family friendly suburbs in city limits). You are free to live anywhere in Chile, including Easter Island. Though living in Santiago makes the monthly paperwork meetings easier.
Sign up for your personal quota :)
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Kills it... until the first law gets passes which encourages printers to incorporate this DRM.

The 3D printer world is still at the hobbyist stage now. When Best Buy is carrying them for $99, the ones carried by Best Buy will have DRM incorporated.
I love the PWB! [line break]
Sometimes the best stuff does not have the best marketing.

Any chance the author can post a copy of the documentation his father had saved for the Documenter's Work Bench?

So many UNIX utilities are line-based, paragraphs just complicate things. [line break]
Yet we still type in paragraphs.

You can take the above text and feed it through fmt (one of my favorite utilities) and you get an opening paragraph with two sentences, a single line paragraph, and a final paragraph with two sentences. You can control the line length too. Want 40-column output for better readability? Easy, when using fmt. But you need input that is single lines.

Have you ever ran PDF's through pdftotext or pdftohtml and been frustrated by the formatting? Line breaks from hell.

If documents were distributed in the format the author describes we could convert them into PDF's and other pretty printing formats. But converting from these "paragraphed" formats into readable plain text can be a real nuisance.
What do you have in mind? I'm curious.

What can be appified other than the most mundane parts of the date? Planning dinner then a movie is boring and can be done probably better with existing apps.
Too bad it's not shipping yet, I will keep it in mind. Thank you.
There are things you learn while pursuing a MBA that you will not learn anywhere else. Some of those things are highly relevant to being an entrepreneur. Maybe not at the very earliest building stages, but certainly if you make it past that point. Particularly in enterprise focused software companies. That said, there are many paths to achieving your goals - the key is to choose one and stay focused - be it a MBA or YC or any other program. We should all be grateful that any of these options are available to any of us - none of them seem bad to me.
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For points #1, #4, and #5, it's a statistical fallacy.

#1 - MBA programs's are not focused on entrepreneurship but it doesn't negate that they have entrepreneurship courses. There is also a huge benefit to entrepreneurs in understanding business while creating new business, and in knowing exactly where and how your business idea fits in a "corporate structure". Not every startup is a consumer targeted mobile application.

#4 - Just because the network isn't 100% entrepreneurs does not mean you can't gain value from it. Similarly, unlike an incubator you are investing 1-2 years into an MBA, and build stronger relationships and ties within that network.

#5 - 5% entrepreneur rate of a large alumni network is still most likely larger than an entire incubator's alumni network.

For points #2 and #3, it's a personal choice on whether or not to make the investment. People differ by their risk averseness and in the amount of resources they have to invest, and unlike your bootstrapped startup an MBA sticks with you for life.

TL;DR: The MBA is your own investment to make, not Naysawn Naderi's.
Read Mindstorms before you do. :)
This feels like lazy evaluation bolted on to Clojure (cool!). There's further benefit since you get some dataflow abstraction—which then reminds me of the Par monad.

http://community.haskell.org/~simonmar/par-tutorial.pdf
This. I learned to program just by reading a book to get basic syntax and then doing as many Project Euler problems as I could. I got to about 60 and by that point I was ready to try some cool things like making my first app.
Only if you're dating a computer. Making a few assumptions (you're a guy and it's a date with a girl), I can't think of anything less encouraging to a woman than to realize the date is running to a schedule.

Take a huge risk -- don't plan the date, experience it.
The original article did say "In the tutorial, I ask students whether or not the Sphinx text files in their project will be read by end-users."

I certainly would not send a file with 'semantic linefeeds' to anyone else. I use markdown quite a lot and LaTeX a little, so I'm happy with

source file -> formatter -> file for reading

The humble fmt (Linux) deals with a file with 'semantic line feeds' and produces reasonable paragraphs. I think I will try this out as a lot of text editors have line oriented tools. It might be that the result of a lot of rearranging that way will resemble a Burroughos cut-up, but I shall see.

I'm sure someone will come up with a regexp that can take a 'standard' text file and split the lines on full stops and commas to restore an edited readable text file to 'semantic linefeed' source, thus allowing round trip copy editing.
Computer vision is a tough thing. Sometimes even Schwarzenegger is identified as female. But overall we reach quite good accuracy on determining gender from face.
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I don't understand why we cant skip around the lessons in the python tutorial. I don't need to start at lesson 1; i want to skip around to different lessons.
Exactly. What we do really well is information capture using tablet computers and storing the information directly in the cloud. Tablets can handle signature capture, scanning, photos and video documentation right at check in and check out so all the inventory is always synced. Our notification system and inventory portal makes sure that the 3PLs client is always informed about shipment activity. The biggest difference is probably that we can provide our basic WMS at such a low price because we primarily make our revenue in other ways that build off of this offering. Previously, smaller 3PLs were left out entirely from WMS offerings.
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Relevant auto-complete out of the box is a killer feature. Feels and works so much better than the Tumblr defaults, at least based on the reference implementations. Nice job @swiftype.
HN is not status.<random site>.com.
Seniors not wanting universal healthcare is insane considering Medicare.
That's a very good remark - upvoted!

Some people will change their behavior and that's ok- because they'll be able to see with their own eyes, while they are still alive, the damage they'll do on their own family and maybe on society too.

That could induce other changes, such as them giving conferences to other people considering doing the same of the damages of 'unearned money'.

And even if only 1% could be shaved of the business and income tax, that'd be a move in the right direction - and sending a good message.

The idea is not so much increasing government revenue (I'd rather see it lowered to limit the waste) but reducing the damages caused by the whole idea of 'inheritance'.
He clearly wouldn't describe himself as such, and would see himself as the good guy.

Assholes never think of themselves as assholes. If they're assholes in a socially acceptable manner, then they see themselves as simply following the crowd. If they're assholes in a legally acceptable manner, they see themselves as hacking the system. If they're assholes in a manner most people detest, they may either not care, or see themselves as crusaders bringing truth to the unwashed masses.

Myhrvold is an asshole in all three senses. He's a patent troll who games the system; he brings harm to everyone by "protecting business interests", and he likely sees himself as a crusader against the evils of copyright infringement perpetrated by those who are too ignorant to know better.

In short, he's a grade A asshole, but he likely views himself as unjustly persecuted and justified in his actions.
Clean coal is a misnomer, carbon capture and storage is more accurate. There are other technologies related to clean coal but the term 'clean coal' is meant to distract.
The "LOL" response to the Pocket/Readability thing comes off as kind of lacking self awareness. Instapaper has profited off scraping content sites for years. Sure, there is an opt-out mechanism, but defaults matter and Instapaper's default is "I'll take your content, present it how I please, and sell that presentation for money, kthanksbye". Now the shoe is on the other foot and Marco is a content creator, he is going to shut out all other read it later apps? What's so special about The Magazine that paying users can't save it to the read it later app of their choice, even if it isn't Marco's?
People are already taking advantage of the fact that the current estate-tax-and-gift-tax lifetime exemption is $5.12MM per individual and $10.24MM per couple, since this limit will expire at the end of the year and be reduced substantially.
What if I were to just go ahead and list the rating as 4.2 or 4.8 and not show star symbols at all?
Of course, in 50 years, when we boomers are almost all dead (assuming no singularity), to whom will the debt be owed? To the children and grandchildren of the boomers. This between generations battle BS is just BS.
This is a little bit of a tangent, but I recently found this animated GIF which does a great job of illustrating just how _big_ "the baby boom" is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_Population_b...
Wow, hats off to whoever came up with this incredibly useful and perfectly safe tool. :)

(I wonder how many private keys they'll end up with. This is a cheaper if somewhat less universal attack than compromising a CA directly.)
It's simple mathematics. A whole bunch of people are forecasted to receive a bunch more than they put in, which is unsustainable once the population isn't growing fast enough to make up the difference. For an illustration of how difficult this will be to solve, just read some of the Boomer comments on this article, expressing outrage at the notion that they should have benefits cut because of how much they have put in, as if it's unthinkable that they will receive more than they put in, and that this is unsustainable.
I'm not a Rails dev, and I admittedly never made it all the way through this book (more out of lack of time than lack of interest, though), but I was very impressed with the first few chapters of
http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book

It manages to cover material fairly quickly and talk you through getting a working webapp up and running (and deployed!) while still taking the time to explain the little things that a more experienced dev might find obvious.
The argument against is essentially that sales taxes are regressive because wealthier people spend less of their wealth and thus pure sales tax is not a fair way to divide costs.
Yes probably
> I don't need to start at lesson 1; i want to skip around to different lessons.

There's a good reason for this, which I will explain with an analogy:

Lesson 1: Write the Great American Novel.

Lesson 2: Learn how to write engaging, readable short stories.

Lesson 3: Learn how to write internally consistent essays.

Lesson 4: Learn how to write coherent paragraphs.

Lesson 5: Learn how to structure grammatically correct sentences.

Lesson 6 Learn how to use and spell common English words.

Lesson 7: Learn how to enter text on a keyboard.

Get it? Lessons have a natural order, and each lesson requires what was learned beforehand.
Here ya go.

http://youtu.be/a9xAKttWgP4?t=6m58s

There are actually two lines setting up his initial array, and then one line that runs the game against the array.

The entire video is a walk-through of the code.
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They already have theirs.
Why not build something while doing your MBA?
For the last couple of years I've been working on a project to index multimedia for language instruction purposes. We had to address exactly this problem- if someone intercepts your API key, which is trivial if you have to put it in JavaScript, you're screwed. The partial solution we've implemented is disallowing requests that require a key from a browser, and requiring client applications to work server-to-server in those cases.

It doesn't totally solve the problem, it just moves it; but it moves it to a less vulnerable location if you never have to get your API key into a browser where anyone can check it out by viewing source, or, in extremis, opening FireBug.
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The code in the Linux kernel can make adding new features harder than it needs to be. The network stack is one area that could be better designed.
Since it's open sourced, is it under MIT, BSD, GPL, or something else? I couldn't find any in your website or github.

Refer to http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/04/pick-a-license-any-...
This is very true. You will not always know who is a middleman and they will certainly be on our platform. What we can guarantee is that if you are dealing with someone on our platform, they have never misbehaved before. We have enough picture and video documentation to ban anyone who does, and our network of suppliers is tightly monitored. You should never be scammed even if we did not handle dispute resolution because of our inspection technology that makes sure you can interact with your product before it is paid for and shipped.

You may deal with a middleman, but you certainly will not have to deal with order inaccuracy, bait and switch, low quality products or any other types of scams that are currently saturated in B2B marketplaces.
I made an implementation of SmoothLifeL in Ready and this video. Stephan Rafler created the SmoothLife rules and has his own software. Ready is designed to let the user play with a large range of systems like this one, connecting a field of floats to an OpenCL kernel that the user can rewrite on the fly. Check out Ready for some similar patterns, like Robert Munafo's U-Skate world.

http://code.google.com/p/reaction-diffusion

There's a deep motivation behind all this, which is to try to understand the pattern formation mechanisms that appear in nature and get harnessed by organisms.
I second this. For anyone trying to teach computers (and anything else), this will save you from repeating all the mistakes that all the other computer programming education startups are making/will make in the future.

Again, just to be clear, this book is really really really really important.

Hope that landed. :)
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More accurately, it is $5.12MM per individual and $10.24MM for a married couple.

Furthermore, this exemption can currently be used as a lifetime gift-tax exemption rather than an estate tax exemption, which allows large estates to transfer assets to heirs and use the extra years to undergo compound accumulation of assets instead of exposing a larger sum to estate taxes in the future.
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too much effort. wouldn't want to divert my attention unless i see real value.
Still waiting for a code teaching site that actually explains how everything fits together.

What's HTML used for? What's CSS? What's the bigger picture? What's the difference between java and javascript? Why are there so many languages. What are all these terms you are spitting out? Can we get some real world analogies so we can grasp some concepts?

But every single lesson from all these startups starts with type 'this' in or 1+1.

I don't think coding lessons should start with 1+1. It should start what coding is, what the language is, why I am learning it and what I could do with it and most importantly, what is different about it compared to rest of the languages. You got Python, Java, HTML, CSS, Ruby, C+ and the list goes on. I think it'd be very beneficial to have a map, that shows every day stuff that people use and list how it was built. ie: iPhone are built on 'X', Android are built on 'Y', Websites are normally built with 'Z', but you can add 'A', 'B' and 'C' to make it even better etc.

To me, the approach taken by these sites are almost identical. And they're all missing something…
A half-truth being told to distract from the broader class struggle which the Economist's ideology says cannot ever happen.
I agree that fake reviews could easily be a nasty issue on Yelp and other sites. In this case I'm not particularly worried about it.. but only time will tell. API access could be good for a variety of reasons though :)
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As other's have noted it can be bypassed through providing assets to children before death.
Looks like Google Ads and Google Analyics are both running on the page with your private key and public key. So every key pair generated is probably stored by both of those services--forever.
probably not for everyone.
You won't progress to the next stage until you marry your practice knowledge with real world requirements.

Just start building it and learn along the way. Seriously -- you wont reach some magical point where you are officially good enough to make software.

The only thing you need to do (for now) build something is get it to work.
Clever, but not too impressive. It's more like building 3D models using only Lego blocks. It can't have circle, triangle or anythig other shapes.
The app is user-dependent. It would be the match.com for date planning. People create maps of where they went on a date previously and people can follow that date if they are matched with that person based on their dating needs and criteria (i.e 1st date with a moderate budget. It's more of a convenience tool and saves time from scouring sites like yelp, foursquare, metromix etc.
These are the kinds of guides that I think the budding gopher needs. Golang.org has some beautiful examples but they are a bit terse.
I'm actually 100% against compulsory schooling, but we do need to acknowledge that homeschooling is a phenomenon of those either so wealthy they can hire specialists or keep a parent out of the workplace.
Yeah I totally understand that- even humans have trouble sometimes. I'm surprised you even tackled that since everything else seemed to be pretty good.

Just out of curiosity what are some things you expect people to use the gender selection for? I could imagine a toy app that puts hats on people and, if the gender confidence is high, assigns them a "female" or "male" style hat (and a more unisex style if the confidence is lower).